American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work, Nick Taylor

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American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work, Nick Taylor

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When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, 13 million American workers were jobless. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts, and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created--the Works Progress Administration, which would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted for eight years, spent $11 billion, and employed 8 and a half million men and women. The agency combined the urgency of putting people back to work with a vision of physically rebuilding America. Its workers laid roads, erected dams, bridges, tunnels, and airports, but also performed concerts, staged plays, and painted murals. Sixty years later, there is almost no area in America that does not bear some visible mark of its presence.--From publisher description

When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, 13 million American workers were jobless. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts, and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created--the Works Progress Administration, which would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted for eight years, spent $11 billion, and employed 8 and a half million men and women. The agency combined the urgency of putting people back to work with a vision of physically rebuilding America. Its workers laid roads, erected dams, bridges, tunnels, and airports, but also performed concerts, staged plays, and painted murals. Sixty years later, there is almost no area in America that does not bear some visible mark of its presence.--From publisher description

Summary

A history of FDR's New Deal looks at the origins of the Works Progress Administration in the dark days of the Great Depression, examining the politics and development of the WPA from 1935 to 1943 and assessing the legacy of the controversial program

Award

ALA Notable Book, 2009.

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234934

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

331.13/77097309043

Illustrations

illustrations

plates

Index

index present

LC call number

HD5724

LC item number

.T34 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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True

Target audience

adult

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the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work

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American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work, Nick Taylor

In extremis -- Hope on the rise -- The dawn of the WPA -- Folly and triumph -- The arts programs -- The phantom of recovery -- The WPA under attack -- WPA: War Preparation Agency -- The legacy of the WPA -- Glossary

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

viii, 630 p., [32] p. of plates

Isbn

9780553802351

Isbn Type

(hardocover)

Lccn

2007034563

Other physical details

ill.

System control number

ocn170057676

(OCoLC)170057676

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American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work, Nick Taylor

In extremis -- Hope on the rise -- The dawn of the WPA -- Folly and triumph -- The arts programs -- The phantom of recovery -- The WPA under attack -- WPA: War Preparation Agency -- The legacy of the WPA -- Glossary